Circle-iron support for wagons



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S.VS.HURLBUT. CIRCLE IRON SUPPORT FOR WAGONS.

No. 246,139. Patented A1 1g.23,1881.v

I @ewenYhq wnem NTTE STATES SIDNEY S. HURLBUT, OF RAGINE, WISCONSIN.

CIRCLE-IRON SUPPORT FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,139, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed June 1, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY S. HURLBUT, of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Circle-Iron Supports for Wagons 5 and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompan yin g drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of lhisspecification.

This invention relates to devices in wagons for the support of the circle-irons from the hounds; and it consists in the features of construction herein after fully setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of parts of the circle-iron and hounds with my improved circle-iron support applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the U-shaped part of the support detached and Fig. 3 1' s a central vertical section of the hound, circle-iron, and support in place.

Ihe same letter designates the same part in all the figures.

A is the circle-iron or brace. B is the yoke. C O is an eyebolt, and D is the support proper. The supportD consists of apreferably wroughtiron piece given the generally U-shaped form shown, the central portion, D, which forms the base of the support, being flat and broad, and the upper free ends being directed inward or converging so as to barely admit the eyeholt G. A hole, d, through the middle of the base D, gives passage to the shank O of the eyebolt, and when the parts are in place, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the ends of the sup- (No model.)

port D bear against the under face of thecirole-iron on both sides of the eyebolt which embraces said iron. The bolt-shank 0 passes down through the closely-fitting aperture 61 in the broad base D, and also through thehound B. The nut 0, applied to the bolt-shank on the under face of the hound, draws the circle-iron down firmly upon the upper ends of the support and confines all the parts firmlyin place.

The matcrialadvantages of the construction shown are, first, cheapness of construction; second, breadth of bearing of the support Dat the base D upon the wooden hound, by which the support is prevented from pressing into the Wood and thereby working loose in use, without the intervention of a plate or other additional part usuallyemployedin connection with the hollow cast supports commonly used.

I claim as my invention- 1. Combined with the brace A and hound B, the three-sided plate D D, having the hole d in the part D, and the eyebolt O 0, provided with the nut a, substantially as described.

2. The wrought-iron support described, consisting of the plate D, bent to form the broad horizontal apertured base D and the converging vertical parts, combined with the eye-bolt G C, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY S. HURLBUT.

' Witnesses:

J. J. DAVlS, CHAS. A. BRowNsoN. 

